From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 10:13:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA15961 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:13:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA15951 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA00256; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:13:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:13:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Sebastian Zinkiewicz cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to get DOS back ? In-Reply-To: <32FE71EB.441E@ionsys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Sebastian Zinkiewicz wrote: > Situation: > I was installing FreeBSD 2.1.6 > I had a power failure. . . > Since than I have decided to install FreeBSD on another hard drive. > > Question: > I want to format my crashed drive back for a DOS. > When I boot from DOS Bootable diskette I get the message: > "Memory Allocation Error > Cannot load command, System halted" Looks like your boot floppy is busted. > My another drive works perfectly on that machine (win95 and NT) so > definetely it is not a hardware problem, just the DISK... > I cannot get even to fdisk utility... If you can boot win95, then you have fdisk & format available. Just drop to a DOS prompt and fire away. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major